Re: Voltage Multiplication Circuits

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• Subject: Re: Voltage Multiplication Circuits
• From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-jpl.nasa.gov> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 11:13:45 -0700
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THe latter... Each diode (or cap) needs to withstand 2V, where V is the
peak voltage from the AC source.

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> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Voltage Multiplication Circuits
> Date: Friday, November 05, 1999 7:11 AM
> 
> Original Poster: "jw" <jwhitmor-at-muscanet-dot-com> 
> 
> I have a question about the capacitors in a Cockcroft-Walton
> style voltage multiplier circuit. Does the voltage rating need to exceed
to
> total device emf from end to end, or just the difference between the
input
> and output of each respective stage?  I assume whatever is true for the
> caps, is true for the
> rectifiers also (?).
> 
> Thanks for all the help!
> 
> 

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